Literacy is not enough
Subtitle: essays on the importance of reading
By: edited by Brian Cox ; with an introduction by Eric Bolton
Contributors: Cox, Brian, 1928-; Book Trust (Great Britain)
Publisher: Manchester University Press and Book Trust
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Reading -- Great Britain; Books and reading -- Great Britain; Education, Humanistic -- Great Britain; Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Part 1, Reading matters: Reading now and then / V. Cunningham; title: Sense and semblance: the implications of virtuality / S. Birkerts; title: Television and literacy / C. MacCabe; title: Hauntings / A.S. Byatt; title: Love of reading / D. Lessing; title: Reading to make us glad / R. Hattersley; title: What you reading for? / J. Treglown; title: Critical literacy and creative reading / R. Hoggard; title: Part 2, Reading contexts: An irrelevant education / M. Schmidt; title: Downhill all the way? The commercialisation of publishing / Rivers Scott; title: Revolution in the book trade / C. Sinclair-Stevenson; title: The flexible bookshop / E. and C. Stephenson; title: Television and its influence on reading / S. Hearst; title: Pt. 3, Reading education: English teachers and the third way / B. Marshall; title: Important reading lessons / M. Meek; title: Changing literacy in the early years of school / H. Dombey; title: Reading in the primary school / T. Furlong; title: Reading for pupils aged 11 to 14 / J. Wilks; title: Teaching disadvantaged readers / P. Lease; title: Reading at ages 14 to 16 / A. Barnes; title: Sixth-form studies / J. Ogborn; title: Reading and the university / J. Simons